If theres a line on a glass

It's human nature to fill a liquid to that line...

Gav demonstrating where he fills his lovely Glens vodka to, when he buys vodka by the bottle on Paramount Tuesdays with The Tuesday Night Club

His glass

Wow

200, yes that is TWO HUNDRED, wait for it FREE, again.. FREE, unit measuring half pint glasses from the health campaign: "Healthier Scotland" by the Scottish Government, courtesy of Super-drug Cumnock. Yaldi. But what am i going to do with 200 of them...

 200 of the buggers!

Ghostpoet - Carry Me Home

First heard this song, the morning after he night before of one of my friends 21st birthday parties (couldn't have scripted the timing any better could you..) heard it on the radio after i had come out of the shower when i couldn't even muster up enough energy to get dressed because it was all being used fighting off the MOTHER of all hangovers. Went onto Youtube (other video watching places are available...) and must have listened to it about 20 times in a row after that. The lyrics speak about how, alcohol has taken hold of him and its something us young (enter the word binge here if you want) drinkers never really think about when it comes to alcohol. Heres a young man telling us how he's become some what dependant on alcohol and how it's affecting his life. 
How many of us have had to: miss lectures/call in sick/spend a whole day in bed/be sent home from work because we were hung over? You could have the hang over to end all hang overs but still continue to drink on  regular basis. Is it because we are subconsciously dependant on alcohol? We think we need it to have a good time? We have to be more careful when we play the alcohol game because the frank reality is you don't have to be a stereotypical "Jakey" to be dependant on alcohol...

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Social Marketing

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This image highlights an area we as binge drinkers rarely think about. Alcohol is a drug, and like any other drug it can be incredibly addictive ...

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hadenough.org.nz

this is an interesting campaign that happened in NZ particularly the quote; "it's not what we're drinking, it's how we're drinking."

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Binge Drinking, Fun Isn't It?

Alcohol is poison, we tend to forget that... However it's the words used on the shot glasses that have attracted me to this image (granted it is slightly nagging in a way but) it visually represents (maybe not utilised in the best way) the stages of drinking alcohol

Makes me proud to be British.... NAAAAAHT

Race to hospital: Students down lethal amounts of alcohol in deadly game where aim is to be the first in A&E

It is the ultimate dangerous drinking game and another depressing example of the state of binge Britain.

University students have been filmed downing lethal amounts of alcohol in a shocking competition to see who can end up in hospital first.

The race only ends when one drunken student either vomits or has to seek medical treatment in a hospital.

Read the hole article on the disgusting subject online Here 


This makes me ashamed to be British, ashamed to even be Scottish (we have the worst reputation in Britain) and ashamed to be a student...


A quote from the article "When they reach the ground to complete the challenge the students can be heard chanting ‘We hate brain cells’..." clearly shows these guys  are not ignorant of the damage they are doing to themselves but their hedonistic ways get the better of them and they remain intent on causing it.


How long are we willing to let this go on for? How is this going to impact on the future health of these students, when they have successfully given themselves liver damage and gotten themselves to a point where they need to have transplants as a result of these self inflicted illnesses. In 20/30 years time are we going to have a nation of middle aged residents with chronic liver ailments that we can't cope with or have the resources to treat? The future strain on the NHS is immeasurable. Are we going to have to arrive at a point where patients needing medical attentions because of excessive alcohol consumption either have to pay for their own health care or are to be refused treatment?


This was from The University of Manchester and in recent times there have been street riots over students (in England?) having, now, to pay their own tuition fees; how much money are they spending on alcohol when they are consuming such vast amounts on disgustingly frequent occasions? (admittedly you could argue that the price of alcohol is so cheap it its allowing them to act and behave in such abhorrent fashions; but thats another argument completely) 
Surely the money they are shelling out - to quite frankly kill themselves - would be better spent on their educations?
The money being spent by the NHS on treating such insolent students and adolescents is contributing to the fact that the government can afford to subsidize tuition fees any longer and cut backs are having to me made to keep us from falling further and further into national debt, is it not? (then again i know jack about politics so don't quote me on that! ;) ).